8th July 2016 | for Creatives | reading, intuitive writing & pantsing, Robert Olen Butler, writing, writer-reader relationship |
"It is the imagination that must be a strong and supple instrument, ready to lead the reader through moment-by-moment sensual experience."
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
"It is a dig at the author's vanity to realise how quickly the reader's eye skips across the words which it has taken him so many months to try to arrange in the right sequence."
"If I seduce you into feeling something... then you will decide for yourself what you'll do with that feeling."
"You have to tell your mind to back the hell off. It's another place in yourself entirely where you must look to create a work of art."
"I like to believe that my readers are as smart as the writers I hang out with, and they will rise to the challenge. We teach our readers how to read our books in the first paragraph, in the first word. We set up a contract with them."
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